15 Actors Who Pulled Double Duty

Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell of the same time title, “Cloud Atlas” features over 19 actors playing different roles that span race, time, and gender. Tom Hanks plays a Scottish thug in England, a doctor in 1849 who’s definitely not trying to heal anyone, an 1936 extortionist hotel manager, a shady physicist, an actor, and a goat herder. The film was directed by The Wachowskis, runs nearly three hours, and co-stars Halle Berry.